Ariel Kim

The Azure in Monochrome Ariel Kim

"There's something wrong with her eyes," Azure heard her classmates snicker. "She probably has some sort of disease."Asteroid #76830 was entirely monochrome. The landscape, the quotidian lifestyle- and the people. And Azure, with her blue eyes, was the only one that wasn't. Ostracized for her differences, Azure wears an overconfident veneer as a second skin, all while yearning to visit the Earth and claim a life where she blends in. But will the blue planet really be as wonderful as she expects? And is there a secret behind the dearth of color in the rest of the galaxy?In her National Scholastic award-winning novel "The Azure in Monochrome" (formerly titled Azure Skies), Ariel Kim plunges into ideas of race, conformity, and estrangement- in a faraway place all too familiar.